A Woman's Tale
Directed byPaul Cox
Written byPaul Cox
Barry Dickins
Produced byWilliam T. Marshall (executive)
Paul Cox
Santhana K. Naidu
StarringSheila Florance
Gosia Dobrowolska
Norman Kaye
Chris Haywood
Max Gillies
Ernie Gray
CinematographyNino Gaetanno Martinetti
Edited byRussell Hurley
Music byPaul Grabowsky
Distributed byOrion Classics
Release dates
Canada: 18 December 1991 (1991-12-18) at the Toronto Festival of Festivals
USA: 1 May 1992 (1992-05-01)
Australia: unknown
Running time
93 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
Box officeA$49,584 (Australia)
$405,137 (US)

A Woman's Tale is a 1991 Australian film directed by Paul Cox and starring Sheila Florance, Gosia Dobrowolska, Norman Kaye, Chris Haywood, Max Gillies and Ernie Gray.

Premise

Martha (Florance) is an elderly woman living alone in her flat and dying of cancer. Her love of life leads to an ambivalence about her age; her unique moral code leads to her playing cupid for her friend and nurse Anna (Dobrowolska) and Anna's married lover (Gray); her worrisome son (Haywood) wants her to move into a home; her neighbour Billy (Kaye) has dementia.

Production

Florance herself was dying of cancer as the film was being shot. She died, aged 75, nine days after being awarded the 1991 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role.[1]

Box office

A Woman's Tale grossed $49,584 at the box office in Australia.[2] The film grossed $405,137 in the United States.[3]

Reception

Roger Ebert added A Woman's Tale to his Great Movies list in 2004.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Juddery, Mark (9 December 2009). "Actors face drama of AFI curse". The Australian. Retrieved 24 May 2010.
  2. ↑ "Film Victoria – Australian Films at the Australian Box Office" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 18 February 2011. Retrieved 24 November 2010.
  3. ↑ IMDb.com. Retrieved 23 January 2011
  4. ↑ Ebert, Roger (1992). "Death as a character study (November 7, 2004 republication)". RogerEbert.com. Retrieved 3 October 2021.


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